合阳中学校2014-2015学年度10月月考英语试题

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第一部分 英语知识运用(共四节，满分55分)

第一节 语音知识(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1. disaster   A. nation       B. quality      C. damage     D. command

2. hopeful   A. vocabulary   B. devote      C. recover      D. block

3. straight   A. said        B. bargain      C. curtain       D. main

4. president  A. outdoors    B. sugar        C. measure     D. rescue

5. thunder   A. clothes      B. breathe      C. those        D. beneath

第二节 情景对话(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Woman: ____6____

John: Hello, I just received the shirt I ordered, but it’s the wrong colour.

Woman: ____7____

John: 84950234

Woman: You ordered a long-sleeved polo shirt in forest green. Size large.

John: ____8____

Woman: Really? I’m so sorry. ____9____

John: When will I receive the new shirt?

Woman: ____10____

A. I’ll send you a replacement right away.

B. Hello, can I help you?

C. But the shirt you sent me is dark blue.

D. What size would you like?

E. Please show me your phone number, and I’ll check it for you.

F. In about 3 working days.

G. It’s up to you.

第三节 语法和词汇知识(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

11. It is always the husband who ______ first when a quarrel breaks out between the young couple.

A. gives off    B. gives out    C. gives away   D. gives in

12. He ______ a job in the firm in 1990 and ______ there ever since.

A. gets; worked   B. got; has worked   C. got; had worked  D. gets; has worked

13. This is the first time that we ______ a film in the cinema together as a family.

A. see    B. had seen   C. saw   D. have seen

14. ______ the number of the cars, only ______ small number of people have attended the meeting.

A. Judged from; the  B. Judging from; the   C. Judged from; a   D. Judging from; a

15. Lucy wasn’t saying anything, but the teacher smiled at her as if she ______ something very

clever.

A. had done   B. did   C. has done   D. does

16. ——Look at those clouds!

—— Don’t worry. ______ it rains, we’ll still have a great time.

A. As though     B. Even if     C. In case     D. If only

17. This book ______ the life of the students is popular with the teenagers.

A. which based on   B. basing on   C. based on  D. being based on

18. —— Is the work difficult?

—— Not at all. It is easy ______.

A. to do      B. to be done     C. doing     D. to have done

19. It took ______ building supplies to construct these energy-saving houses. It took brains, too.

A. less than  B. other than   C. rather than  D. more than

20. Film has a much shorter history, especially when ______ such art forms as music and painting.

A.having compared to  B.comparing to   C. compare to  D. compared to

21. The woman farmer saw a long snake on the way to her apple garden suddenly. The ______

look on her face suggested she ______.

A. frightened; had been frightened    B. frightened; be frightened

C. frightening; had been frightened   D. frightening; was frightened

22. Was it in the white building, if I may ask, ______ he made a speech to thousands of people?

A. that           B. where         C.which       D.when[

23. The old worker insisted that he ______ old, and ______ back to the working post again.

A. wasn’t; be sent                 B. wasn’t; was sent

C. be not; send                    D. isn’t; must send

24. —— It’s a long time ______ I saw you last.

—— Yes, and what a pity. It will be a long time ______ we see each other again.

A. before; before  B. since; since  C. before; since  D. since; before

25. The prize will go to the writer _____ story shows the most imagination.

A. what      B. that      C. whose     D. which

第四节 完形填空(共20小题， 每小题1.5分， 满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the

hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30

The nurse had him take a ___26___ in the waiting area, ___27___ him it would be at least 40 minutes ___28___ someone would be able to see him. I saw him ___29___ his watch and decided, since I was ___30___ busy —— my patient didn’t ___31___ at the appointed hour. I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment

The gentleman said no and told me that he ___32___ to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his ___33___. He told me that she had been ___34___ for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be ___35___ if he was a bit late. He replied that she ___36___ knew who he was，and that she had not been able to ___37___ him for five years now. I was ___38___ , and asked him，“And you ___39___ go every morning，even though she doesn’t know who you are?”

He smiled and said.“She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back

___40___ as he left.

Now I ___41___ that in marriages，true love is ___42___ of all that is. The happiest people don’t ___43___ have the best of everything;they just ___44___ the best of everything they have. ___45___ isn’t about how to live through the storm，but how to dance in the rain.

26. A. breath        B. test         C. seat          D. break

27. A. persuading    B. promising    C. understanding  D. telling

28. A. if            B. before      C. since          D. after

29. A. taking off     B.fixing        C. looking at      D. winding

20. A. very         B. also         C. seldom         D. not

31. A. turn up       B. show off     C. come on        D. go away

32. A. needed       B. forgot       C. agreed          D. happened

33. A. daughter      B. wife        C. mother          D. sister

34. A. late          B. well        C. around          D. there

35. A. lonely        B. worried      C. doubtful        D. hungry

36. A. so far         B. neither      C. no longer        D. already

37. A. recognize     B. answer       C. believe          D. expect

38. A. moved       B. disappointed   C. surprised         D. satisfied

39 .A. only         B. then          C. thus             D. still

40. A. curiosity      B. tears          C. words           D. judgment

41 .A. realize        B. suggest       C. hope            D. prove

42. A. agreement     B. expression     C. acceptance       D. exhibition

43. A. necessarily     B. completely    C. naturally         D. frequently

44. A. learn          B. make         C. favor            D. try

45. A  Adventure     B. Beauty       C. Trust             D. Life

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的ABCD四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A.

His first successful fight was for the equal rights of black people in South Africa. Then, as the first black president, he fought to unite the country and organize the government. Now Nelson Mandela has set his sights on a new enemy, AIDS.

On March 19, the 82-year-old former president, hosted his second AIDS-awareness concert. He warned that 25 million people in Africa were already infected with the fatal disease.

Mandela was born in a small village in South Africa in 1918. He was adopted by the chief of his tribe and could have been a chief himself and lived a happy country life.

But he refused to be a chief when his people lived under racial discrimination(歧视). He decided to fight for equal rights for all the people in South Africa. Before 1990, under the country’s Racial Segregation Law, colored and white people lived separately. Black people were treated unfairly even when taking a bus. Blacks had to stand at the back of the bus to make room for white people even when there were only a few of them on board.

For his opposition to the system, Mandela was arrested and spent 27 years in prison. He was freed in 1990 and became the president of the country after the first election was held in which everyone could vote.

Mandela was not only a political fighter who attacked with speeches. He was also a trained boxer and fought in the ring when he was young.

“Although I did not enjoy the violence of boxing, I was interested in how one moved one’s body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat”, he wrote in his autobiography.

As a skillful fighter, he chose music as his weapon against AIDS. He hopes to win another victory against AIDS.

46.When was Mandela arrested?

A.In 1963

B.In 1990

C.When he refused to be a chief

D.When he became the president

47.Nelson Mandela succeeded in doing the following except _______.

A.winning the equal rights for the black people in South Africa

B.Uniting South Africa

C.organizing a government in South Africa

D.controlling the spread of AIDS

48.If Nelson Mandela hadn’t fought against racial discrimination, he_______.

A.could have been the president of South Africa

B.could still have lived a happy life

C.could have been in a difficult situation

D.would have been an excellent boxer

49. Which of the following statements can best describe the life of Nelson Mandela?

A.struggle is his life

B.sports make his fame

C.fight for equal rights

D.a great fighter against government.

B.

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while – then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home.

50. The writer of this passage must be __________.

A. an American  B. a professor    C. a Chinese   D. a student

51. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.